An inclusive Mastodon instance for members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Welcome to Page.LGBT!

Page.LGBT is an inclusive Mastodon instance, primarily (but not exclusively) for members of the LGBTQ+ community. Our doors are open to anyone who would like to join - so if you're looking for a small, friendly community, we'd love to welcome you!

Inclusivity and Moderation

We are open and welcoming to anybody who wishes to join, but ask that you return the favour by being friendly and polite to everybody else whilst you are here. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination, intolerance or harassment, neither towards users of Page.LGBT, nor towards anybody outside of Page.LGBT.

If you see anything on Page.LGBT which you believe may break our rules, please let us know by using Mastodon's reporting functionality. We aim to review all reports within 24 hours of receiving them.

All of our rules apply both to users registered on Page.LGBT, and to external users elsewhere in the Fediverse. If an external user is found to be breaking our rules, we may restrict or block their content from appearing to our users. Similarly, if a user from Page.LGBT is found to be breaking our rules whilst interacting with an external user, we will enforce the rules equally to how we would between two local users. The Fediverse is still largely a very friendly place - so be nice to our neighbours!

Please note that, whilst we welcome users of all languages, our moderation team works in English - this may mean that we could be more likely to make mistakes when making moderation decisions involving posts in other languages, as we will be relying on machine translation. If at any point you think we may have made a mistake because of an inaccurate translation when moderating, please do let us know!

Registration

Registration is open to everyone, but new accounts may sometimes require approval from our staff team before they can start using our website. This is to help prevent abusive registrations from accounts intending to harrass our users.

Approval is not always required - we regularly review whether manual approval is necessary based on the current level of rule-breaking content from new accounts.

To increase the likelihood of your account being approved, you may want to include links to other social networking profiles in the "Why do you want to join?" section. This is completely optional, and your application will never be rejected solely for not including any links - but being able to show that your other profiles have a clean history allows us to review and approve your application sooner.

Moderated Servers

To help provide a safe and inclusive space for everyone, we limit and/or suspend connections from any Fediverse servers which we believe present a risk of targeting or attacking our users, or posting content which violates our rules. For some servers, this may be because their rules explicitly allow this to occur; for others, it may be because they are not sufficiently well moderated, allowing unwanted content to slip through.

The full list of moderated servers can be viewed in the "Moderated servers" section below.

If you are aware of a server which is not on the list, but you believe that it should be, please let us know by telling us both the server's URL, and the reason you believe it should be restricted.

If you believe that a server has been limited or suspended by mistake, please let us know, so that we can review whether the server is eligible to be removed from the list.

The names of some servers in the list may be partially obscured - this is done for instances hosting the worst kinds of content, to prevent our moderation list from being used as a tool to help nefarious users find unacceptable content.

If you would like a copy of our moderated instance list, in either a human-readable or machine-readable format, please feel free to get in touch and we'd be happy to help.

Acknowledgements and thanks

• Page.LGBT's core server runs Mastodon Glitch Edition, which is licensed under the GNU AGPL 3.0. A copy of the source code for this software, along with a full copy of its license, can be obtained at https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon.
• Page.LGBT uses custom pride flag emojis from the following repository, which are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 license: https://github.com/b3yc0d3/twemoji-flags.
• Page.LGBT uses custom pigeon-based pride emojis released into the public domain by FrazzledBrynn: https://frazzledbrynn.itch.io/pride-pigeons

1. Intolerance and discrimination, in any form, is not permitted. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia. TERFs and "gender criticals" are not welcome here.
2. Bots/automated accounts are allowed, but must be flagged as a bot in the account's profile settings.
3. Accounts that engage in scamming of any kind are not permitted. Peddling of NFTs is also not permitted.
4. Do not harass other users, and do not intentionally go out of your way to annoy or upset anyone. If somebody asks you to stop doing something (within reason), stop.
5. Do not spam or advertise excessively. Self-promotion is fine, but excessive unsolicited advertisement is not. Feel free to promote yourself or your creations/products - just don't be too excessive and don't direct it at other people unless they invite you to do so.
6. Explicit/adult content is permitted but must be behind a content warning describing the types of content present. Illegal content is not permitted, nor is sexual material depicting minors. Pornography depicting real people is not permitted as we cannot verify that the subjects gave consent.
7. Moderation staff are allowed to impose additional restrictions based on their own judgement, if they determine that doing so is in the best interests of our users and/or the instance as a whole. A full reason for the decision will always be given.